Gender: Female / Female
Hometown: Somewhere in England / Somewhere in England
Profession: Aspiring Novelist / Aspiring Novelist
Temperament: Shy / Slightly less shy
Special Needs: Being together at all times/Being together at all times

My sister and I identical twins. Our mother was a stuffed gibbon and our father was a stuffed chimp, but we really see ourselves as gibbons, even though we don’t really look like them. We are always together, and we share everything. We never tell each other’s secrets! We like to play with dolls and to make up stories. We want to be writers some day, and we’re already working on a few novels.

Gender: Female
Hometown: Los Alamos, NM
Temperament: Analytical
Occupation: Artificial Intelligence Researcher
Interests: Adaptive Boosting, Dynamic Decision Networks, Symbolic Time Sequences

Curriculum vitae

Positions

• Ada joined the faculty of the MIT Department of Computer Science in 1995.
• Ada is a member of the MIT Artificial Stuffed Animal Intelligence Lab and has served on many MIT faculty committees (2000-2006)

Research Interests

• Artificial Intelligence, stuffed animal activity recognition, dynamic decision networks and symbolic time sequences in plush subjects

Education

• Ada received a B.S. in Computer Science Synthetics in 1986 from Purdue University and a Ph.D in Computer Science from MIT in 1991.

Publications

• Ada’s publications include 4 books (major AI textbooks), and several collections of MIT papers.

Honors and Awards

• AI Dissertation Award: A Framework for Plush Robot Navigation, 1998
• NSF Award: Dynamic Decisions in Multi-Robot Interactions with Polyester, 1998
• DSA-98 Best Paper Award: Conference on Synthetic Fur Systems, A Comparison of Representative Polyester Batting Localization Methods in Stuffed Robots, 2001.

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Gender: Male
Hometown: Vegas
Profession: Poker Player
Temperament: Loud
Health Condition:: Gout, swelling, tiny arms
Special Needs: Anti-Inflammatories, Dietary restrictions

I always wanted to be a professional poker dealer, but because of my short arms and lack of fingers, I just wasn’t very good. Instead, I decided to try my hand at actually playing poker. I’ve been pretty successful, despite my inability to actually hold my cards. You’d be amazed at how well you can do at the game without picking them up at all! I won the WSOSAP in 1999, 2002, and 2008. I’m currently putting together a live online talk show called “Mike The Bill Live.”

Gender: Male
Hometown: River of Unknown Name, TX
Specialties: Crocogator Tooth Extraction, Stuffed Predators Anonymous Leadership
Temperament: Reformed
Health Condition: Phantom Tooth Syndrome
Special Needs: Transportation to Pred-Anon Meetings, pliers, ice maker

Sure, I’ve done some things I’m not proud of… I did my fair share of biting the hand that pretended to feed me. But that part of my life is over. It took some tough love from a few of the older crocogators at SPA (and the surgical removal of my stuffed teeth), but I’m proud to says it’s been several years since my last chomp. I’m taking it one human-aided step at a time.

Gender: Male
Hometown: San Diego, CA
Specialties: Furiosity
Temperament: Fast
Health Condition: Flames, baby!
Special Need: Speed

On the street, where reputations are made, it doesn’t matter if you win by an inch or a mile: Winning is winning. In a world beyond the law, if you have what it takes you can have it all. But when rivalry is a way of life- when loyalty is all that matters- would you be willing to risk everything? I would. Would you? If so, you might be interested in adopting me.